Robert Elliot
Rank: Corporal
Service No: S/4697
Place of Birth: Cupar
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Theatre of Death: F&F
Age: 29
Regiment/Service: Seaforth Highlanders (‘D’ Coy. 9th Bn.)
Memorial: Loos Memorial
Additional information: Son of James and Mary Murray Elliot of 1120 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Rutherglen Lore information: Sons of James Elliot, 1120 Argyle Street, Glasgow.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Mary Elliot.
1901 census information:
Address: 3 Wardlaw Drive, Rutherglen.
Father: James (48) assurance agent, born about 1853 in Ireland.
Mother: Mary (46) born about 1855 in Lesmahagow.
Self: Robert (15) born about 1886 in Cupar.
Brother: Charles (13) born about 1888 in Cupar.
Brother: Hugh (7) born about 1894 in Greenock.
Brother: David (3) born about 1898 in Greenock.
1911 census information:
The family are living in Rutherglen. The family comprises James 58, Mary 56, Robert 25, Hugh 17 and David 13.
Newspaper transcript – information has been received by Miss Littlejohn, 131 Main Street, Cambuslang, that Corporal Robert Elliot, Black Watch, was killed on September 25, 1915. Private Elliot, who was 25 years of age, was employed by the North British Railway Company.
Also commemorated on the memorial at Stonelaw High School, Rutherglen and Wardlawhill Church, Rutherglen and on a family headstone in Cupar Cemetery, Fife.
Headstone transcript –Robert Elliot fell at Loos 25 Sept. 1915 aged 29.
Brother of David Elliot